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Apr 09, 2009 12:09

Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle is a short, sparse book - I'm pretty it doesn't actually have any dialogue, and none of the characters are given proper names - about a seventeenth-century Italian who is captured and brought to Istanbul as a slave. After using his science knowledge to fake it as a doctor for a while, he earns the attention of some ( Read more... )

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schiarire April 9 2009, 16:52:10 UTC

Holy crap! I want it!

bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:01:47 UTC

You know, somehow I MYSTERIOUSLY SUSPECTED it might be up your alley.

schiarire April 9 2009, 17:10:31 UTC

English books are expensive :(

bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:13:32 UTC

It is a very small book though! So maybe it would be cheaper . . .?

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bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:14:18 UTC

. . . how much Orhan Pamuk have you actually read? :O

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bookelfe April 10 2009, 02:02:07 UTC

I've heard that, actually, but I have a great fascination for the more historically set stuff, which is why I gravitated to My Name is Red and The White Castle first.

I am also terribly curious as to what you thought of this one, if you can remember! I was impressed by it, but I've seen mixed reviews elsewhere.